# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/j7qbZZIaFs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11739578-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2014-02-02T23:31:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

No worries, #SuperBowl fans, this is an artist depiction of a neutron star, which is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth's mass into a sphere about 12 miles across, or similar in size to Manhattan Island, as shown in this illustration.

A neutron star is the crushed core of a massive star that ran out of fuel, collapsed under its own weight, and exploded as a supernova. A neutron star can spin as fast as 43,000 times per minute and boast a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than Earth's. Matter within a neutron star is so dense a teaspoonful would weigh about a billion tons on Earth.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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